No Meaning Quotes

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
- Chinua Achebe

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
- Paulo Coelho

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
- Idi Amin

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
- Margaret Atwood

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
- Sai Baba

I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning.
- James Baldwin

You love her. (Shanus)
I barely know her. (Wulf)
Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Time has no meaning to the heart.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
- Lewis Carroll

Indeed, if I have yet to join the hosts of the suicides, it is because (fatigue apart) I find it no meaningfuller to drown myself than to go on swimming.
- John Barth

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
- Georges Bataille

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M Schulz

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
- Albert Camus

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
- Albert Camus

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
- Hans Blix

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
- Niels Bohr

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
- Madeleine L Engle

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.
- Libba Bray

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could nd no meaning.
- Charles Bukowski

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
- Leo Buscaglia

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
- Joseph Campbell

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
- Truman Capote

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
- Raymond Chandler

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
- Stuart Chase

Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there's actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced.
- Ted Chiang

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
- Emile M Cioran

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.
- Shane Claiborne

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.
- John Connolly

Life knows us not and we do not know life-we don't know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow
- Joseph Conrad

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
- Pat Conroy

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
- John Cornyn

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
- Elvis Presley

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green

Time has no meaning,
Love will endure.
- Jude Deveraux

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.
- Joan Didion

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
- Rick Warren

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
- Glen Duncan

Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
- Glen Duncan

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
- Henry Miller

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
- Jasper Fforde

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
- Viktor E Frankl

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
- Viktor E Frankl

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm

There must be a Hell. A place for demons. A place for the damned. Hell is Heaven's reflection. Heaven's shadow. They define each other. There must be a Hell for without Hell, Heaven has no meaning.
--Remiel
- Neil Gaiman

One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning
- Neil Gaiman

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.
- Damon Galgut

Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.
- Leo Tolstoy

in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated,is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse.
- Leo Tolstoy

has no meaning, or it has a very wrong meaning. How
- Leo Tolstoy

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
- Helen Garner

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.
- John Taylor Gatto

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
- Paul Gauguin

Forever has no meaning when you're living in that moment.
- Ellen Hopkins

No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment and I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
- Ellen Hopkins

The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.
- William Goldman

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
- Herbie Hancock

Everyone chats and smiles, chats about nothing, shouts and drinks themselves silly occasionally or all the time. They they die one fine day, old or young, they die, tucked up into the earth. That's what it's like. Swarming lives, with no meaning, no number.
- Erik Fosnes Hansen

Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?
- K Ske Hasegawa

Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.
- Stephen Hawking

As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
- Douglas Kennedy

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..
- C S Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
- C S Lewis

Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.
- Charles De Lint

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Things separate from their stories have no meaning.
- Cormac Mccarthy

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
- Pete Maravich

You have stopped the arrow of time...
There's no meaning to this rhyme...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you..
- Megan Mccafferty

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
- Bruce Mcculloch

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.
- Stephenie Meyer

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
- Jonathan Miller

existence is random.
has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
- Alan Moore

Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.
- Alan Moore

Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological processnothing more?
- Wes Moore

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
- Jim Morrison

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
- Jim Morrison

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
- Toni Morrison

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
- Audrey Niffenegger

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
- Arvo Part

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn't honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
- Steven L Peck

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
- Kenneth L Pike

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
- Ned Rorem

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
- Bernhard Schlink

Life without pain has no meaning.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
- Erwin Schrodinger

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.
- Jess C Scott

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
- Jeanette Winterson

live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.
- Jeanette Winterson

I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.
- Jeanette Winterson

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
- Fiona Shaw

Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage.
- Rob Sheffield

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.
- Eugene B Sledge

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.
- Monique Truong

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
- Gore Vidal

This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.
- Rebecca Wells